I'm really not trying to flamebait here, but I thought Qt was a GUI library. Why does a GUI library need a "self-contained and easy-to-use file archiving library"? Isn't that something totally separate?
This. I had to update the iOS on my iPhone 3GS to run an app I needed, and my phone immediately got unbearably slow. It was awful. I ended up having to disable a bunch of the 'new' features which seems to have broken some old features as well just to make it sort of ok, and it's still slower than it was before.
OTOH my phone is going on 4 years old now and it's been functional and handy, and I like the os, so I'm probably gonna buy an iPhone 5s pretty soon.
That's not a run-on sentence. This is a run-on sentence: "My car is out of gas we cannot reach town before dark.". Or this: "It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.". The sentence you quoted is properly structured and punctuated. I dock you 3 internet points.
No, it's mob justice. People harassed him, his friends, his family, DoS'd sites that he owned and that his family owned, harassed people who supported him, faked twitter accounts in his name and harassed people from those accounts, harmed his book sales by giving 1 star reviews that had nothing to do with the contents of the book (previously a 5-star reviewed book)... I'm not saying I agree with the initial letter he wrote to Inman, but if you step back from the situation and think about it, this is a truly reprehensible response.
Take a read at his write-up of events from his point of view. It's actually scary if you consider what happened - essentially the online equivalent of a huge vigilante mob crying for his blood. If this were real life he would have been lynched or quartered & drawn or at least run out of town. About the effects of being on the receiving end of this:
I have at least two tweeters claiming to be me, slinging shit at people, offending people in my name. Twitter took altogether too long to get rid of them — a day or so. I send demands to preserve evidence to Twitter. This provokes speculation about whether I’ll sue Tweeters, as I’ve reserved spaces for them as “Doe defendants” in the Inman lawsuit, in my claim for the new tort of the era, the DIRA. If the courts recognized this tort, it would give grounds for a civil claim against those who make active netwar against other Netizens.
[...]
Contemplating today the IRL (in real life) effects of a DIRA [Distributed Internet Reputation Attack]. As I am a pretty quiet person working out of a home office, I have few people who see me on a regular basis. But I shop at Trader Joe’s where I am a well-known face, and you really get to know the people. I even have one actual friend on staff there. I was lined up with my online image and instantly indicted as an asshole by this one Trader Joe’s employee, who until then, had been quite nice to me. Now, he was literally giving me the hairy eyeball. Well eventually my friend got him straightened out with better information and now we are friends again, but for a while there it was touch and go. So that was weird, actually, very weird.
Then there was the unbelievable slam at me in the print and online editions of the Tucson Weekly, taken by some bonehead named Dan Gibson who hadn’t even bothered to call me up. I called him up and said we should get together for a drink and talk so he could know the person he was writing about. He agreed to, then bowed out last-minute saying he had a job interview because he was being paid terribly at Tucson Weekly.
[...]
Being the object of hatred in a DIRA is going to put your family members in an unfriendly spotlight, especially if they have active social media profiles. ust as celebrity/VIP status has a halo effect that suffuses those in the entourage with cachet drawn from the main celebrity, so your kids will be negatively viewed by many social media zombies. They will be forced to defend themselves in supernasty online exchanges with people who hate “YOUR NAME HERE”– that guy who does so many bad things. They essentially reply, “Who are you to talk, and why do you care? You don’t even know my Dad. He’s the coolest fuckin’ Dad that ever fuckin’ walked the earth, you piece of shit. You would be lucky to beg a dollar from him, and he would give you a twenty, you idiot. If you were in trouble, he’s probably the only lawyer who would even care about a fool like you.” [...]
[...]
Maria, the elder daughter, is a very smart woman, and for a while did a lot of whip-smart tweeting. When the DIRA record blew in, one zombie tweeter in particular went absolutely psycho on her, and Maria responded effectively, which of course just caused the zombie to go into hyperdrive with her invective. When Maria sees that the psycho-tweeter is deleting her own most-inflammatory tweets, she screencaps all that remain. Indeed, it’s the beginning of IRL effects for Maria. The psycho-tweeter is threatening to contact Maria’s boss and accuse her of unprofessional use of Twitter. Daddy didn’t raise no fools, so Maria moves first, visiting the HR office with printouts in hand, to get her story in ahead of the zombie attack.
Maria’s HR manager asks a few questions, looks at the psycho-tweeter’s off-the-wall tweets, and says to Maria, as if she’d have nothing to fear from a complaint by su
My cynical side is saying this was their plan all along - make as much money as they can from the AH knowing people will hate it, then pull it back to let the game go on a bit as it should have been from the start.
No, what this means is that their racist neighbours will beat them up for bringing filthy negroes into the neighborhood. And then lynch the negroes.
And those are acts of violence and should be persecuted just like any other acts of violence. If the government's law enforcement agencies don't do it then that clearly shows a deficiency in that form of law enforcement.
You really don't understand how evil works, do you?
Ascribing "evil" to the "other" is one of the prime reasons that this world is so messed up. Indeed it underpins the whole notion of racism. By making this comment it shows that you are susceptible to those very same forces that cause people to "lynch the negroes". How does that make you feel?
Ok, let's take a look at that Wikipedia article in terms of a free market solution, with the non-aggression principle in mind. It says there were 3 main aspects to the problems:
1) Racial segregation, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson. The decision upheld "the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the docrtine of 'separate but equal'." This is not a free market solution. This is institutionalized and legally mandated racism. This does not fit into the free market solution because it's requiring people to segregate under threat of state violence. The free market solution would be one where there is a choice whether to segregate or not. This law would be abolished.
2) Voter suppression or disfranchisement in the southern states. This is an issue that the government deals with as it has to do with voting for government positions, not with any market.
3) Private acts of violence and mass racial violence. The same solution should be applied here as to other acts of violence - they should be prohibited.
So it seems most of the problems here came from the law and the government - legally mandated racism, preventing votes, and not pursuing acts of violence - not from any "market solution". Essentially your argument was a non-sequitur as it doesn't apply to what I was saying at all.
Oh I had not taken into consideration the possibility of the other's reality - good tip. What is his reality and why have markets never worked and how have planned economies worked flawlessly in that reality?
You are assuming that the business environment is not a mirror of the culture and vice versa. In other words, those racist business owners will exist in a direct proportion to the number of racist clients, and can thus fill the niche market of "housing where you won't sleep in a bed that was slept in by 'those people'". They can, thus, charge more for their product because the clients will pay more for that product. Smart business people will notice a glut in the market of "non-racist" housing and the concomitant lack of racist rooms (with the associated premium price) and begin to offer that product, even if they are normally non-racist. Kind of like people who smoke like a chimney running hotels with non-smoking rooms.
Hmm. I suppose there would be a market force in that direction as well. But then it would be more expensive to be a racist - and people really like not spending money when they don't have to. Perhaps I am naive but I think it would ultimately end in non-racism.
The freedom of free association implies a freedom FROM association, as well.
You get to pay more, until the market adjusts, which it will. Then there's no racism. Which is better than having a regulation that forces people to pay equally when they don't want to, which will increase resentment and thus perpetuate racism.
No... I'm saying it's a good thing to have a market where there it is profitable to not be a racist. Because people will do what is profitable. Thus there will be less racists. Which is a good thing cause racism is stupid and a plague on our society.
Oh I gotcha. I don't see why this is an issue, though. In fact I would say it is progress.
If I think somebody is suspicious then I don't want to be forced to rent my room to them. If I think people look suspicious because of their skin color then I will lose out on their business. Now, let's say we live in a racist society where a good amount of people don't like people of a certain skin color and thus don't rent rooms to them. What this means is that people who aren't racist will be able to charge them more because there is less supply for them. Is this a bad thing? No, this is actually great, because now there's economic incentive to not be a racist - if you're not a racist, you will get more money for serving people who are unfairly discriminated against.
The net result is that racists will be less successful at business and eventually be replaced by non-racist business owners. Thus the problem solves itself, without institutionalizing racism as does government regulation.
The only problem with this is if you think it's appalling for people to be able to choose whom they serve and at what price, which to me rather seems like a very basic freedom that should not be restricted.
Let's not even get into room owners picking and choosing clients. I've seen them proudly say that they check Facebook and such beforehand, only allow professionals and other clean people, etc. Yeah, what they really mean is "no Negroes". When the "sharing economy" is beyond the reach of government regulation, problems like this that society thought solved re-appear with disturbing frequency.
Please. Racism isn't a solved problem. There is still racism today, and government regulation actually ends up prolonging it via racist programs such as affirmative action, which literally forces people to treat others differently based on what race they are.
I would love to help you implement this plan, and I happen to have a $500 prepaid visa card already! Unfortunately I have not used it in months and there is a re-activation fee of $20 which I cannot currently afford. Kindly wire me $20, at which point I will unlock the card and send it to you. Then you can use the card to make the fake identity and send me $21,619, which I will then use to gain access to the $14 MILLION (USD), at which point I will send you $1 MILLION (USD) for your kindnesses.
This is truly amazing! I just happen to have $14 million locked in a bank account. Unfortunately all my savings are there, and I cannot afford the bank fee to release them, which happens to be $21,619! If you could please forward me the sum I will unlock the account and give you $1 million as compensation.
That under warranty less SSDs fail doesn't mean they outlast HDDs... If warranty is 1 year, and all SSDs fail in 1.5 years, yet hard drives usually fail only in 3 years, hard drives are still better off.
In other news, Laxori666 was too lazy to RTFA and is hoping someone will chime in. He is tired and drowsy and so he will blame it on that when in fact, he would have done the same regardless - except perhaps without this addendum as such honesty usually requires some sort of altered state of consciousness.
Why is this news... is this our version of People magazine, where instead of hearing about all the details of the Kardashians' lives, we hear about every email or event that happens to Linus?
Slashdot Mirror
Once while drunk I made a python program which displayed a window with the text "I am drunk" smoothly rotating and bouncing around in it
Ok, thanks for all the replies guys - my ignorance has been chipped away yet another tiny bit =).
I'm really not trying to flamebait here, but I thought Qt was a GUI library. Why does a GUI library need a "self-contained and easy-to-use file archiving library"? Isn't that something totally separate?
This. I had to update the iOS on my iPhone 3GS to run an app I needed, and my phone immediately got unbearably slow. It was awful. I ended up having to disable a bunch of the 'new' features which seems to have broken some old features as well just to make it sort of ok, and it's still slower than it was before.
OTOH my phone is going on 4 years old now and it's been functional and handy, and I like the os, so I'm probably gonna buy an iPhone 5s pretty soon.
That's not a run-on sentence. This is a run-on sentence: "My car is out of gas we cannot reach town before dark.". Or this: "It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.". The sentence you quoted is properly structured and punctuated. I dock you 3 internet points.
No, it's mob justice. People harassed him, his friends, his family, DoS'd sites that he owned and that his family owned, harassed people who supported him, faked twitter accounts in his name and harassed people from those accounts, harmed his book sales by giving 1 star reviews that had nothing to do with the contents of the book (previously a 5-star reviewed book) ... I'm not saying I agree with the initial letter he wrote to Inman, but if you step back from the situation and think about it, this is a truly reprehensible response.
(Read my other comment here for quotes showing how he was harassed.)
Insider trading amounts to making decisions based on information you have about the things you are investing in. Yeah, sounds truly reprehensible...
I have at least two tweeters claiming to be me, slinging shit at people, offending people in my name. Twitter took altogether too long to get rid of them — a day or so. I send demands to preserve evidence to Twitter. This provokes speculation about whether I’ll sue Tweeters, as I’ve reserved spaces for them as “Doe defendants” in the Inman lawsuit, in my claim for the new tort of the era, the DIRA. If the courts recognized this tort, it would give grounds for a civil claim against those who make active netwar against other Netizens.
[...]
Contemplating today the IRL (in real life) effects of a DIRA [Distributed Internet Reputation Attack]. As I am a pretty quiet person working out of a home office, I have few people who see me on a regular basis. But I shop at Trader Joe’s where I am a well-known face, and you really get to know the people. I even have one actual friend on staff there. I was lined up with my online image and instantly indicted as an asshole by this one Trader Joe’s employee, who until then, had been quite nice to me. Now, he was literally giving me the hairy eyeball. Well eventually my friend got him straightened out with better information and now we are friends again, but for a while there it was touch and go. So that was weird, actually, very weird.
Then there was the unbelievable slam at me in the print and online editions of the Tucson Weekly, taken by some bonehead named Dan Gibson who hadn’t even bothered to call me up. I called him up and said we should get together for a drink and talk so he could know the person he was writing about. He agreed to, then bowed out last-minute saying he had a job interview because he was being paid terribly at Tucson Weekly.
[...]
Being the object of hatred in a DIRA is going to put your family members in an unfriendly spotlight, especially if they have active social media profiles. ust as celebrity/VIP status has a halo effect that suffuses those in the entourage with cachet drawn from the main celebrity, so your kids will be negatively viewed by many social media zombies. They will be forced to defend themselves in supernasty online exchanges with people who hate “YOUR NAME HERE”– that guy who does so many bad things. They essentially reply, “Who are you to talk, and why do you care? You don’t even know my Dad. He’s the coolest fuckin’ Dad that ever fuckin’ walked the earth, you piece of shit. You would be lucky to beg a dollar from him, and he would give you a twenty, you idiot. If you were in trouble, he’s probably the only lawyer who would even care about a fool like you.” [...]
[...]
Maria, the elder daughter, is a very smart woman, and for a while did a lot of whip-smart tweeting. When the DIRA record blew in, one zombie tweeter in particular went absolutely psycho on her, and Maria responded effectively, which of course just caused the zombie to go into hyperdrive with her invective. When Maria sees that the psycho-tweeter is deleting her own most-inflammatory tweets, she screencaps all that remain. Indeed, it’s the beginning of IRL effects for Maria. The psycho-tweeter is threatening to contact Maria’s boss and accuse her of unprofessional use of Twitter. Daddy didn’t raise no fools, so Maria moves first, visiting the HR office with printouts in hand, to get her story in ahead of the zombie attack.
Maria’s HR manager asks a few questions, looks at the psycho-tweeter’s off-the-wall tweets, and says to Maria, as if she’d have nothing to fear from a complaint by su
holy shit that's awful. i never even considered such a natural disaster could happen. amazing.
cool story brah
My cynical side is saying this was their plan all along - make as much money as they can from the AH knowing people will hate it, then pull it back to let the game go on a bit as it should have been from the start.
No, what this means is that their racist neighbours will beat them up for bringing filthy negroes into the neighborhood. And then lynch the negroes.
And those are acts of violence and should be persecuted just like any other acts of violence. If the government's law enforcement agencies don't do it then that clearly shows a deficiency in that form of law enforcement.
You really don't understand how evil works, do you?
Ascribing "evil" to the "other" is one of the prime reasons that this world is so messed up. Indeed it underpins the whole notion of racism. By making this comment it shows that you are susceptible to those very same forces that cause people to "lynch the negroes". How does that make you feel?
Ok, let's take a look at that Wikipedia article in terms of a free market solution, with the non-aggression principle in mind. It says there were 3 main aspects to the problems:
1) Racial segregation, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson. The decision upheld "the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the docrtine of 'separate but equal'." This is not a free market solution. This is institutionalized and legally mandated racism. This does not fit into the free market solution because it's requiring people to segregate under threat of state violence. The free market solution would be one where there is a choice whether to segregate or not. This law would be abolished.
2) Voter suppression or disfranchisement in the southern states. This is an issue that the government deals with as it has to do with voting for government positions, not with any market.
3) Private acts of violence and mass racial violence. The same solution should be applied here as to other acts of violence - they should be prohibited.
So it seems most of the problems here came from the law and the government - legally mandated racism, preventing votes, and not pursuing acts of violence - not from any "market solution". Essentially your argument was a non-sequitur as it doesn't apply to what I was saying at all.
Oh I had not taken into consideration the possibility of the other's reality - good tip. What is his reality and why have markets never worked and how have planned economies worked flawlessly in that reality?
You are assuming that the business environment is not a mirror of the culture and vice versa. In other words, those racist business owners will exist in a direct proportion to the number of racist clients, and can thus fill the niche market of "housing where you won't sleep in a bed that was slept in by 'those people'". They can, thus, charge more for their product because the clients will pay more for that product. Smart business people will notice a glut in the market of "non-racist" housing and the concomitant lack of racist rooms (with the associated premium price) and begin to offer that product, even if they are normally non-racist. Kind of like people who smoke like a chimney running hotels with non-smoking rooms.
Hmm. I suppose there would be a market force in that direction as well. But then it would be more expensive to be a racist - and people really like not spending money when they don't have to. Perhaps I am naive but I think it would ultimately end in non-racism.
The freedom of free association implies a freedom FROM association, as well.
I don't follow - could you rephrase?
You get to pay more, until the market adjusts, which it will. Then there's no racism. Which is better than having a regulation that forces people to pay equally when they don't want to, which will increase resentment and thus perpetuate racism.
No... I'm saying it's a good thing to have a market where there it is profitable to not be a racist. Because people will do what is profitable. Thus there will be less racists. Which is a good thing cause racism is stupid and a plague on our society.
Oh I gotcha. I don't see why this is an issue, though. In fact I would say it is progress.
If I think somebody is suspicious then I don't want to be forced to rent my room to them. If I think people look suspicious because of their skin color then I will lose out on their business. Now, let's say we live in a racist society where a good amount of people don't like people of a certain skin color and thus don't rent rooms to them. What this means is that people who aren't racist will be able to charge them more because there is less supply for them. Is this a bad thing? No, this is actually great, because now there's economic incentive to not be a racist - if you're not a racist, you will get more money for serving people who are unfairly discriminated against.
The net result is that racists will be less successful at business and eventually be replaced by non-racist business owners. Thus the problem solves itself, without institutionalizing racism as does government regulation.
The only problem with this is if you think it's appalling for people to be able to choose whom they serve and at what price, which to me rather seems like a very basic freedom that should not be restricted.
Let's not even get into room owners picking and choosing clients. I've seen them proudly say that they check Facebook and such beforehand, only allow professionals and other clean people, etc. Yeah, what they really mean is "no Negroes". When the "sharing economy" is beyond the reach of government regulation, problems like this that society thought solved re-appear with disturbing frequency.
Please. Racism isn't a solved problem. There is still racism today, and government regulation actually ends up prolonging it via racist programs such as affirmative action, which literally forces people to treat others differently based on what race they are.
I would love to help you implement this plan, and I happen to have a $500 prepaid visa card already! Unfortunately I have not used it in months and there is a re-activation fee of $20 which I cannot currently afford. Kindly wire me $20, at which point I will unlock the card and send it to you. Then you can use the card to make the fake identity and send me $21,619, which I will then use to gain access to the $14 MILLION (USD), at which point I will send you $1 MILLION (USD) for your kindnesses.
This is truly amazing! I just happen to have $14 million locked in a bank account. Unfortunately all my savings are there, and I cannot afford the bank fee to release them, which happens to be $21,619! If you could please forward me the sum I will unlock the account and give you $1 million as compensation.
That under warranty less SSDs fail doesn't mean they outlast HDDs... If warranty is 1 year, and all SSDs fail in 1.5 years, yet hard drives usually fail only in 3 years, hard drives are still better off.
In other news, Laxori666 was too lazy to RTFA and is hoping someone will chime in. He is tired and drowsy and so he will blame it on that when in fact, he would have done the same regardless - except perhaps without this addendum as such honesty usually requires some sort of altered state of consciousness.
Why is this news... is this our version of People magazine, where instead of hearing about all the details of the Kardashians' lives, we hear about every email or event that happens to Linus?
Dont worry about explaining your joke killing the humour, it had none to begin with.
Truer words have never been spoken.
I could see calling it the "Sexy 6C". That sort of rolls off the tongue. That's what she said.
This comment, here - it has gone over my head.